Starting in 2020, I thought it would be fun to document my thoughts on the books I’ve read each month, albeit briefly. So for the month of January, here are the 9 books I’ve read, in the order I’ve read them. The ones in bold are the ones I enjoyed the most!
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies: This book could have been a blog post. I understand how repetition is supposed to drill things into your brain, but the main idea of the book was simple enough to preempt this.
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love: I didn’t want to like it as much as I did. Brought some home truths to life for me, things about myself I suppose I’d known but never consciously admitted.
- Turbulence: I read this on the plane fittingly, and I wouldn’t read it if I had better things to do. The concept was fine, but the writing wasn’t.
- The Girl He Used to Know: I couldn’t put this book down. As a self-professed lover of this genre of awkward protagonists in love; this book delivered. Cleanly written, deliberately plotted, gratuitously dramatic.
- Honeymoon Hotel: Trashy TV for the brain. I read this on holiday, enough said.
- The Silent Patient: With this book, I think I am officially done with the whole Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train genre.
- The Dutch House: This was the first time in recent memory (outside of the world of fantasy) that a place or more specifically, a home, is a titular character; a living, breathing person. Plus as an only child, I love getting voyeuristic insights into sibling relationships.
- Outline: This book is wildly underrated. Rachel Cusk uses beguilingly simple language to create layers upon layers of meaning. Her characters are deeply introspective; it made me imagine what it would be like if everyone went through life as if they were going to write a memoir someday
- Uncanny Valley: A Memoir: I desperately wanted the book to make me feel something, since it is so utterly relatable for anyone that works in tech in Silicon Valley… but it felt oddly like a caricature of a book about Silicon Valley.